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Oct 2025
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Episode 389. Why am I so emotional in re...

Emilia Thompson
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If you’re healing your emotional / over / binge eating, you might have noticed that you’re more emotional than ever. Maybe you actually feel ‘worse’ than you did when you started, not more peaceful. Here’s why & what to do about it

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